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The Good News about Armageddon
“A metaphysical wit and a self-mocking humour leaven this often dark account of the calamity that is our contemporary way of living. In his own distinctive way, Steve McOrmond explores the territory mapped in Di Brandt's Now You Care and Dionne Brand's Inventory, weaving in these technically deft lyric pieces a kind of post-modernist jeremiad. He ranges across the detritus of mass culture with a blend of wryness and intensity that is highly engaging.”
> Mary Dalton
Primer on the Hereafter
“In Primer on the Hereafter, his second collection of deftly tuned and plainly spoken lyrics, McOrmond wades into the physical world around him and is at his best when not causing too many ripples, instead positioning and repositioning his sensitive lens in an attempt to frame a narrative for his focussed observations. I like to think of it as a book of nature poetry that is not always (or even often) about nature.”
> Jacob Arthur Mooney, Eyewear
Lean Days
“McOrmond’s first book…reveals a voice of patented East Coast, I-ain’t-lyin’ plainness... The lyrics exude a “common touch,” but one informed by much reflection, and, most importantly, by carefully and frankly observed experience…Lean Days is phat wondering.”
> George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle-Herald
> George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle-Herald
The Good News about Armageddon
Brick Books 2010
ISBN 978-1-894078-83-2
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